[jittsl]

As a veteran of many years of DEing and a couple as track chair for NER I think I'm qualified to say - The "rules" are not designed to ruin your day. They're designed to ensure that all entrants can safely coexist in a high speed driving environment. I have never personally, nor have I seen anyone else, disqualify an entrant for having an oil seepage issue. If I had, I would have had to disqualify almost evey air-cooled Porsche brought to an event.

Oil leakage, on the other hand, is a major safety concern. If your car drops any more than a single drop or two on the ground in the ten minutes it takes to do a tech inspection or leaves a trail of smoke as it burns off the oil dropping on the exhaust then I would expect it to fail and would insist you have it repaired before attending a DE. It simply doesn't make sense to allow anyone to pollute the racing surface and/or endanger other drivers. The fear is not so much for the few drops but rather what will happen to the engine when put under the stresses of high performance driving on a race track?

If you are in the first category, don't sweat it. You'll be fine. Go and enjoy the pleasures of driving your Porsche as it was intended. If you really do have an leaking issue then you probably want to get it fixed anyway.